Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vern Pierson


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:33, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Vern Pierson

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Article about a district attorney. Is this group of persons, in general, considered notable? WP:POLITICIAN says  international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide). Sources are only from local news. A section named Scandals in the article could give the impression that someone is using Wikipedia for local politics. A CSD was declined. Ben Ben (talk) 10:56, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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 * Comment I declined the CSD for the reason that the claim of being a district attorney is a claim of being "important or significant" so makes it not CSD'able. My gut feeling is this guy is not notable and this will end up being deleted, however not got the time to do a full search before !voting at the moment.  LGA  talk  edits   11:19, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. The bulk of the article is copyvio from the About Vern Pierson page. The sources of the "Scandals" section appear to be blogs. A search for reliable sources gets passing mentions and local political squabbles. As a county official an an unelected candidate for higher office, the subject also fails WP:POLITICIAN. • Gene93k (talk) 14:08, 6 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete I did a check for reliable independent third party sources on this person and all I found were passing mentions in a few such sources— no direct coverage of him in any, and so fails to meet the notability guidelines. Aside from this, the huge bulk of the article appears to be a long résumé which doesn't cite any sources: if this section is removed, there isn't really an article left.   KDS 4444   Talk  14:33, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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